GAURAA SHEKHAR
Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact. Her fictions and essays have appeared in Nimrod, CRAFT, Sonora Review, Contrary, Literary Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Toast, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and currently serves as a Contributing Editor for Story. Learn more here.
Fiction
“Other Significant Others: A Glossary”
Published in Nimrod Journal’s Spring/Summer 2020 issue, Vol. 63. No. 2, Words on Play. Print.
“Other Significant Others: A Glossary”
Reprinted in CRAFT, September 10, 2021. Online.
“Bathwater”
Published in Contrary ’s Spring/Summer 2020 issue. Online.
“My life is so fun and adventurous!”
Published in Sonora Review, Issue 77, September 2021. Print.
“Point of Extinction”
Published in Funicular Magazine, Issue 05, November, 2020. Print.
“Everything Else is Just Exposition”
Published in X-R-A-Y, June 14, 2020. Online. Featured in X-R-A-Y’s Summer Reading Collection I.
“A Wedding in Uluwatu”
Published in Vol.1 Brooklyn, February 21, 2021.
“Submission”
Published in Queen Mob’s Teahouse, May, 2020. Online.
“International Airport”
Published in Fiction Southeast, August, 2020. Online.
“Performance Piece”
Published in No Contact, Issue Three, June 18, 2020. Online.
“Skippy”
Published in Bending Genres, Issue Sixteen, August 2020. Online.
“Old Friend”
Published in No Contact, Issue Eleven: Tricks and Treats, October 2020. Online.
“Perils”
Published in Flash Fiction Magazine, June 19, 2020. Online.
“Write About Race”
Published in Rejection Letters, September, 2020. Online. Reprinted in Issue Two of Neutral Spaces Magazine, January, 2021.
“Ben, Across the Booth from Molly”
Published in (mac)ro(mic), July 8, 2020. Online.
“Paradise”
Published in Little Engines, September 2021. Print and online. Request a copy here.
“marissa cooper is proud of what she did and she’d do it again”
Published in Hobart After Dark (HAD), February, 2021. Online.
Essays
“The Birth of Quarantine Zines”
Published in Literary Hub, July 16, 2020. Online.
“Gently Used Uptown Apartment with High Ceilings”
Published in The McNeese Review, Spring 2021. Print.
“From Scratch”
Published in No Contact Issue Seven, August 13, 2020. Online.
“Taylor Swift’s Holiday House”
Published in No Contact Issue Six, July 30, 2020. Online.
“Fences”
Published in No Contact Issue Ten, September 24, 2020. Online.
“Artificial Weather System”
Published in No Contact Issue Five, July 16, 2020. Online.
“A Real Connection”
Published in Derailleur Press chapbook Conversations With Men, 2020. Print.
“Total Viewer Experience”
Published in No Contact Issue Four, July 2, 2020. Online.
“June 7, 2010”
Published in Past-Ten, June 7, 2020. Online.
“Shaky Allies”
Published in No Contact, Issue Two, June 3, 2020. Online.
“Daylight Haunting”
Published in No Contact, Issue One, May 20, 2020. Online.
“At Home, Twice Removed: Living in Triple Exile”
Published in The Toast, Spring 2016. Featured in The Aerogram’s round-up “Grab Some Ghee & Savor Some Brown Slices of The Toast”. Online.
“The Green Book of Steely Dan References”
Published in New York State Music, Fall 2014. Online.
“20 Fave One Tree Hill Songs”
Published in The Wild Honey Pie, Spring 2016. Online.
Reviews
“Review of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands”
Published in Columbia Journal, May, 2020. Online.
“Review of Helen DeWitt’s Some Trick: Thirteen Stories”
Published in Columbia Journal, May, 2020. Online.
“Cosmological Repercussions of Boundless Solitude: Revisiting Claire-Louise Bennet’s Pond”
Published in Triangle House Review/Housebound, August, 2020. Online.
Interviews and Podcasts
“Inside Voices: A Conversation with the Founding Editors of No Contact”
In phoebe, September 2020. Online.
“Six Questions for Gauraa Shekhar and Elliot Alpern, Founding Editors of No Contact”
In Six Questions For…, October 2020. Online.
“Other Significant Others Nominated for the Pen/ Robert J. Dau Prize”
In Columbia School of the Arts, December 2020.
“Micro Podcast: Editor Edition”
On Micro Podcast, January 2021.
“SAD FM: An Interview with Gauraa Shekhar”
On Textual Healing Podcast, April 2021.
“Apparel for Authors: Interview with Gauraa Shekhar”
In Apparel for Authors, April 2021.
Interviews (In which I ask the questions)
“Experience What We Experience: A Conversation with Adam Thompson”
Published in The Rumpus, July, 2021. Online.
“Focusing On Anything But the World Unraveling: An Interview with Hilary Leichter”
Published in Maudlin House, July, 2020. Online.
“Alignments to Guide the Reader: An Interview with Dima Alzayat”
Published in Maudlin House, July, 2020. Online.
“More Radical Visions, More Radical Acts: An Interview with Deb Olin Unferth”
Published in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online.
“Going Where the Pleasure Is: An Interview with Mary South”
Forthcoming in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online.
“Building Normalcy With a Ring of Fascination Around It: An Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano”
Published in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online.
“Chains of Causality Intersecting: An Interview with Nick Olson”
Published in Maudlin House, August, 2020. Online.
“A Very Different Landscape: An Interview with Diane Cook”
Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online.
“Each Story Functions As A Specific Sound: An Interview with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips”
Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online.
“Section Breaks Felt Like Benches: An Interview with Nicolette Polek”
Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online.
“Exit Tangibility: An Interview with Jamie Marina Lau”
Published in Maudlin House, September, 2020. Online.
“The Places We Leave Aren’t Static: An Interview with Gwen Goodkin”
Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online.
“A Kind of Kinship in Pain: An Interview with Brian Evenson”
Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online.
“Weaving in the Warped: An Interview with Jules Archer”
Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online.
“Come Wait in Line and Buy Some Books: An Interview with Brett Bates”
Published in Maudlin House, October, 2020. Online.
“No Voice Was Expendable: An Interview with Will Johnson”
Published in Maudlin House, November, 2020. Online.
“Lining Up Domino Pieces: An Interview With Charlotte Barslund”
Published in Maudlin House, November, 2020. Online.
“Our Mother Tongue Creates Displacement: An Interview with Jenny Hval”
Published in Maudlin House, November, 2020. Online.
“Into Liberatory Futures: An Interview with Chris Martin”
Published in Maudlin House, December, 2020. Online.
“Real Life is Dangerous All of the Time: An Interview with Elle Nash”
Published in Maudlin House, January, 2021. Online.
“Increasingly Intense and Claustraphobic: An Interview with Madeleine Watts”
Published in Maudlin House, January, 2021. Online.
“Cowboyism Is A School of Thought Begging to Be Broken Down: An Interview with Matt Mitchell”
Published in Maudlin House, January, 2021. Online.
“The Process of Writing Is Necessarily Invasive: An Interview with Lucie Elven ”
Published in Maudlin House, February, 2021. Online.
“Hell Is Other People’s Certainty: An Interview with Rachel Genn”
Published in Maudlin House, February, 2021. Online.
“A New Kind of Poets to Get Us Closer to Progess: An Interview with Michael Chang”
Published in Maudlin House, February, 2021. Online.
“I Villanize Myself: An Interview with Shy Watson”
Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online.
“Dim the Lights and Share a Viewing Experience: An Interview with Gina Nutt”
Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online.
Make it stand out
“A Shape-Shifting Flow Morphs Into Its Final Form: An Interview with Christine Shan Shan Hou”
Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online.
“The World Through A Poet’s Eyes: An Interview with Dani Putney”
Published in Maudlin House, April, 2021. Online.
Awards and Honors
Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Nominated, 2020 (for “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” by Nimrod Journal). Read interview with Columbia University School of the Arts here.
Francine Ringold Award for New Writers
Fiction Finalist, 2020.
Columbia University Writing Scholarship
Recipient, 2019.
Felipe De Alba Fellowship for Fiction
Nominated, 2019.
